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17 Thus there is hope for your future, says the Lord;
    your children will return to their homeland.
18 I have indeed heard Ephraim pleading,
    “You chastised me, and I accepted your discipline,
    I was like an untamed calf.
Bring me back! Allow me to return,
    for you are the Lord, my God.
19 After I turned away, I repented;
    once I began to understand, I beat my breast.
I was ashamed and humiliated,
    and I reproach myself for the sins of my youth.”

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17 So there is hope(A) for your descendants,”
declares the Lord.
    “Your children(B) will return to their own land.

18 “I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning:
    ‘You disciplined(C) me like an unruly calf,(D)
    and I have been disciplined.
Restore(E) me, and I will return,
    because you are the Lord my God.
19 After I strayed,(F)
    I repented;
after I came to understand,
    I beat(G) my breast.
I was ashamed(H) and humiliated
    because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’(I)

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